2 AUGUST 1918

The Theses on Food Supply were written by Lenin at the moment of the most acute food situation in the country, during an extremely intensified struggle against both external and internal counter-revolution (the Czechoslovak uprising, kulak uprisings). Lenin initially sketched out a plan for the theses in pencil consisting of 8 points; on the same page, he then wrote out in ink the final plan of the theses comprising 43 points.